Universal 1075: Original If case, and especially genitive, is marked (enclitically) at the end of NPs, then word order is mainly SOV, NP Postposition, Genitive…
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Universal 1075: Original If case, and especially genitive, is marked (enclitically) at the end of NPs, then word order is mainly SOV, NP Postposition, Genitive…
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Universal 1091: Original If there are X stop and affricate positions, then the number of nasal positions will not exceed X. Standardized IF there are…
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Universal 1107: topic possessive ⇒ backgrounding of simultaneous sequences Original If a language has a Topic Possessive, that language will have backgrounding of simultaneous sequences.…
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Universal 1123: Original If nouns for alienable possession can incorporate their possessive pronouns, then nouns for inalienable possession can too. Standardized IF nouns for alienable…
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Universal 1139: verb morpheme (reflexive & passive use) ⇒ verb morpheme (anticausative use) Original If a verbal morpheme has both the reflexive and the passive…
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Universal 1155: Original For any language, an obligatorily definite identical noun phrase in the preposed main sentences of a relative construction implies the same in…
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Universal 1171: Original If a language uses a morphosyntactic process P to form a distributive-share universal quantifier, it also uses P to form distributive-share numerals,…
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Universal 1187: Original In all cultures/languages, there is a hierarchy of terms referring to the animal and plant kingdoms (and perhaps other domains of folk…
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Universal 1203: Original Monotonicity constraint:The simple NPs of any natural language express monotone quantifiers or conjunctions of monotone quantifiers. Standardized Monotonicity constraint:The simple NPs of…
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Universal 1219: Original If a case is governed by a local postposition, then this case will preferably also be used to express possession (i.e., genitive).…